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Low-voltage-driven soft actuators [PDF]
Chemical Communications, 2018 Soft actuators based on electroactive polymers (EAPs) are the core constituents of future soft robots owing to their fascinating properties such as Lightweight, compactness, easy fabrication into various forms, and Low cost.
Kim, Onnuri +2 more
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Soft electromagnetic actuators [PDF]
Science Advances, 2020 We present soft electromagnetic actuators from liquid metal and elastomer that are safe, stretchy, fast, durable, and programmable.
Mao, Guoyong +6 more
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Soft material for soft actuators [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 AbstractInspired by natural muscle, a key challenge in soft robotics is to develop self-contained electrically driven soft actuators with high strain density. Various characteristics of existing technologies, such as the high voltages required to trigger electroactive polymers ( > 1KV), low strain ( < 10%) of shape memory alloys and the need for ...
Aslan Miriyev, Kenneth Stack, Hod Lipson
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Self-contained soft electrofluidic actuators [PDF]
Science Advances, 2021 Self-contained soft electrofluidic actuators display excellent performance in portability, rapid response, and actuation.
Wei Tang +9 more
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Biodegradable Electrohydraulic Soft Actuators
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 Biodegradable materials decompose and return to nature. This functionality can be applied to derive robotic systems that are environmentally friendly. This study presents a fully biodegradable soft actuator, which is one of the key elements in “green” soft robotics. The working of the actuator is based on an electrohydraulic principle, which is similar
Ryo Kanno +5 more
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Origami-Inspired Soft Twisting Actuator
Soft Robotics, 2023 9 figures. Soft Robotics (2022)
Diancheng Li +10 more
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Self-Healing Polymeric Soft Actuators
Chemical Reviews, 2022 Natural evolution has provided multicellular organisms with sophisticated functionalities and repair mechanisms for surviving and preserve their functions after an injury and/or infection. In this context, biological systems have inspired material scientists over decades to design and fabricate both self-healing polymeric materials and soft actuators ...
Sebastian Bonardd +5 more
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Soft, Rotating Pneumatic Actuator [PDF]
Soft Robotics, 2017 This article describes a soft pneumatic actuator that generates cyclical motion. The actuator consists of several (three, four, or five) chambers (arranged around the circumference of a circle surrounding a central rod) that can be actuated independently using negative pressure (or partial vacuum).
Ainla, Alar +3 more
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Reprocessable Thermoset Soft Actuators [PDF]
Angewandte Chemie, 2019 AbstractWidely used traditional thermosets are good candidates for construction of 3D soft actuators because of their excellent stability; however, it is generally acknowledged that they cannot be reprocessed. The time–temperature equivalence principle enables reprocessing of traditional liquid crystalline epoxy thermosets (LCETs) into 3D soft ...
Yang, Yang +6 more
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Spider‐Inspired Electrohydraulic Actuators for Fast, Soft‐Actuated Joints [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2021 AbstractThe impressive locomotion and manipulation capabilities of spiders have led to a host of bioinspired robotic designs aiming to reproduce their functionalities; however, current actuation mechanisms are deficient in either speed, force output, displacement, or efficiency.
Nicholas Kellaris +6 more
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